REVIEW | The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
Greystone Books, ISBN: 978-1-77164-301-6, 277 pages
by Julie Morley, for Kosmos Online
Our increasingly disenchanted world with its looming dystopian scenarios makes German forest ranger Peter Wohlleben’s series of enchanted naturalist tales a welcome palliative respite. In…
Two Essays | Do Animals Dream? and Death of a Dog
These two essays are from Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’ new book Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017) and are reprinted with permission from the publisher.
Do Animals Dream?, by Sy Montgomery
The electric eel exhibit at the New England Aquarium has a feature that makes it a favorite. Whenever the eel is hunting or stunning…
The Plant-Eater’s Dilemma
By Dr. Kristen Weiss, via her blog Enviro-Mental
“The world is a fabric of suffering and pleasure; in every action, good and evil dance together like a pair of lovers.”– Alejandro Jodorowsky
Earlier this year I joined some colleagues for lunch in Santa Barbara, and they decided to try out a local poke restaurant (poke, if you happen to have missed the rise of this ultra trendy cuisine, is a…
Evolutionary Ecology
Dear Reader,
Every day the Earth embraces us so tenderly and the Sun shares its energy with nondiscrimination and grace. The soils and waters, the animals, plants and minerals - all are constantly transforming. In our podcast, biologist and poet Dr. Andreas Weber says, 'a single being can only be because it is able to transform itself into the whole ecosystem. It gives itself away.' How…
KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Andreas Weber, On Matter and Desire
KOSMOS LIVE PODCAST SERIES Preparing for Profound Change
This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape and offers strategies for coping with what lies ahead. Economic turmoil, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation.
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Excerpt | ‘The Patterning Instinct’: Transforming our Society to Sustainable Flourishing
By Jeremy Lent
Excerpted from the final two chapters of Jeremy Lent’s recent book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, which explores the different ways cultures have patterned meaning into the cosmos, and how various worldviews arose and shaped the course of history. "The book uncovers the hidden foundations of our modern unsustainable worldview, and…
Intuitive Collaboration
Dear Reader,
In our Kosmos research study on the global transformation 'movement of movements', we surfaced the idea of improvisational group work as an emerging human capacity for intuitive collaboration. Like a jazz ensemble or improv dancers, our collective work is more adaptive, self-organizing, and focused on personal mastery, rather than mastering others.
That research insight, like…
Initiative | Making Our Movement See Itself
By Otto Scharmer
Why do the forces of destruction seem so much more powerful than the forces of co-creation? Because the latter one’s do not have any real amplification mechanism. And that’s exactly what we are trying to build and prototype over the next few months. The main purpose of the interactive media hub and platform is to help the emerging global movement sense and see itself across…
Our Intuitive Capacity for Deep Collaboration
By Chris Taylor
In the current edition of Kosmos Journal
"What fascinates me about this process is its fluidity. No one is in overall command; no one’s ego gets in the way; no one is seen to slack off; no one complains about doing too much. When something needs to be done, someone picks it up—getting an extra knife to chop carrots, grabbing another tea towel to dry dishes. When we need to,…
The Dawn of a Conscious Business Movement
By Steve Farrell
In the new edition of Kosmos Journal
"This is a purposeful journey. It involves creating new behaviors, so it will be challenging at times. If we are to create a conscious world we must stretch, gain new understanding, acquire wisdom, express our values through our buying decisions, and then stretch again to progress conscious business and a conscious world."